Carmine Russo

Carmine Russo as an Italian-American FBI agent. During the 1970s, he was tasked with bringing down the rising Gambino crime family member John Gotti, and this task became ever more important after Gotti became boss in 1985. In 1986, Russo met Gotti in a nightclub bathroom, where he warned him that an FBI bug picked up a Bonanno crime family capo placing a hit on Gotti. Russo said that he had a moral and legal obligation to inform him, and his colleague told Gotti that the FBI would be the ones to take him down (alive). The FBI eventually managed to get Sammy Gravano to turn states against Gotti, bringing him down.